The Shadowhound Mount Quest Guide

submitted by lifebane on Apr 20th, 2007

So you are tired of riding a horse around? You are not too keen on the idea on being a panzy Necro and riding menacingly across the lands on your... unicorn??! Well then fellow necromancer, the Shadowhound is the beast for you. This mount can be obtained by doing a few (cough cough) quests for those smelly little goblins over in Martok. Read on to learn what must be done... it's a small quest... won't take long at all (cough cough) really!

Summary of the quest: run someplace, kill lots of stuff and run some more. Rinse and repeat.

So, here i sit, my butt is chapped and saddle sore from hours and hours on this quest, so figured I might as well make Lifebane happy and do a write-up since i am on my way to yet another far-off point. (YES! it made me happy!! -- Lifebane)

This is a basic walkthrough for all those interested.

Step 1: Get enough faction to goto Martok. I had it so dont know how much...presumably -7999 martok faction.

Step 2: Run to Martok. Run to Gaxton Village, West of martok and talk to Witch Doctor Ravix...he is the quest starter.

Step 3: Run to a Mauren out in a hut in SE corner of the bay that is SE of Gaxton Village.

Step 4: Run and speak to Nerail Tharazen in a hut SW of Lomshir on Qualia (loc - 80641, 84189, 17213)

tep 5: Run South to the burnt forest by Evendusk and kill 35 shadow beasts. These can be foudn around loc -7400, -75455, 19349. Run back to Nerail to update the quest.

Step 6: Run towards Dark Horse downs and kill 40 Dark elf ghosts. These are NOT at the top of that mountain area, but at the base of it, just follow the waypoint on the map. Run back to Nerail..

Step 7: Run to a little camp in Thestra, Nrthwest of NEw Targ and Due South of Renton Keep (loc 834, -50680, 50672). And don't forget to activate that Renton riftway if you havent alraedy since you are in the area.

Now you have to do 6 kill quests (surprise!) for the 3 NPC's there. Lots of running aounrd in the same general area. Each quest has an accurate waypoint on the map when you select it so shoudln't be hard to find.

1 -Run and kill for 35 Bluff Gull wings
2 -Run and kill for 20 Wild Boar Manes
3 -Run and kill for 25 Sticky Wolf Spider Silk and 15 Binding Wolf Spider Silk (from two different areas).
4 -Run and kill for 35 Ashen Hills Ash
5 -Run and kill for 20 Koan Fairie Essences
6 -Run and kill for 25 Spider venoms and then 22 of another type of spider venom, again these are from two different areas.

Step 8: Run up past Trengal Keep and kill 17 Darkpaw Stalkers or Hunters at Trengal Hill (loc 82969, 82796, 35951). Then Run over and kill 20 Shadowhounds at loc -10394, -64325, 36677). Run back to the 3 NPC's at spider bluff and updatethe quest once again.

Step 9: Run to Stand of the Ancients in Qalia. The NPC in northern most hut will update your quest and give you the next 2 quest sets you will have to accomplish. Her first quest has you gather the following:

1 - Collect 12 Brilliant Yellow Tiger eyes (roaming tigers in the jungle)
2 - Collect 4 Unruptured lion spleens (roaming lions in the jungle, only drops off adults, not the cubs)
3 -Collect 30 Snapper Scapula Shards (from the turtles along the beach)
4 - Collect 8 snake eggs (these are the first 4 Dot's you will face! They are kind of annoynig to find so just go to this spot and you can't miss em: loc -11902, 5074, 5047  The can also be found on any snake, like the vipers right around that riftway, but the drop rate seems considerably lower)

Step 10: Run back to the NPC in the hut and she will then have you run out and get 35 feathers of three different types (yep 105 total). Kill the Shamans as they seemed to drop one of each most of the times. Run back to the NPc to update your quest then it's off to Thestra again..

Step 11: Run Back to the 3 Amigos in Thestra at the Spiders Bluff camp area and they will have you run all over to the west of their location killing even more stuff, luckily POI's exist for all 3 locations to hunt at. You will need to gather:

-12 Maiming beaks
- 6 Oilskin Worm Mucus (uncommon drop rate on these and they are UNDERwater in that lake where the POI points you to)
-45 Lizard Eye Blood (NOTE: IF YOU HAVE LEVITATE you can simply jump off the cliff, they are at the bottom of that ravine area. If no Levitate is available then work your way around there and you will find a patch leading down eventually... jumping without lev can be bad... right Stillheart?)

Step 12: Run back to the 3 Amigos at the Spider Bluffs camp again. YEAH! They finally have all the parts they need for the Shadowhound trap. now they want you to (you guessed it) run around and kill a gazillion Shadowhounds to get them worked up. Okay so only 107, not exactly a gazillion. You have to go just west and kill 35 Ashen HIll Shadowhoundsat ashen hill. You have to go up to Trendal Keep and kill 32 . The ones inside the keep and the shinkak worg stalkers outside the keep both count. You then have to go further north to the coast and kill 40 Oceanwatch Shadowhounds which are easy.

Step 13: After this you go back to the 3 guys and they send you to fargoholm to speak to Ghostclaw Liarn (-24585, -33848, 76028). The quest here makes you kill 40ish of 3 different types of mobs and 1 leader from any of the three camps. The leader randomly spawns in with the other mobs. Kill, kill, kill then go back to Ghostclaw Liarn and the get sent to the wardship of the sleeping moon. A couple riftways in this area, might be worth your trouble to activate them just for future use.

Step 14: At wardship. or rather just outside of it and standing by a tree is your next quest giver. He gives you another 3 part kill quest + 1 leader... sound familiar? These are actually quite spread out. The first 2 are along the river that runs south in to the ocean west of wardship. The third area is even further west almost all the way to new targ. Kill , kill ,kill then you go back to wardship and you get a nifty 22 slot saddlebag. Accuraet POI's exist for all locations so no locatiosn needed, just follow the dots!

If you have trouble finding leaders just remember that they are 4 dots while everything else is 3 dots.

Step 15: Yay! Done with Thestra! Now we go back to Lomshir and speak to Nerail Tharazen who gives a quest to go inside the nexus of something or the other and kill cultists for their blood. POI on the map, the entrance to this cave is down on the beach head in and go straight down the tunnel. Get 6 blood and lighe up the skulls, then right click your trap while standing in the middle. DO NOT LEAVE THE CIRCLE OR YOU WILL FAIL. Kill the dude and hail the shadowhound to get the update. fear is your friend here and oh yes, make sure you clear the roamers first.

Each person will have to repeat this if you are running a group.

Step 16: Right click on your now recently used shadowhound trap to get the next quest update. The next part tells you to go back to the Mauren in the hut south of martok in the ocean. He will say blahblahblah and tell you to buy a saddle which cost 10g from him. After you have the saddle talk to him again and he lets you choose 1 of 6 Shadowhounds each with with different colored saddles.

Yay doggy!

This Guide was Submitted by Notleh with additional comments by Skaryn, Photo by Nindydar, and then Further Revisions and spiffyness added in by Me!

Thanks for the info folks.

Lifebane
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